Tranquillitas Ordinis: The Present Failure and Future Promise of American Catholic Thought on War and Peace

by George Weigel

Book Overview

This widely-praised, extensively-documented, and highly controversial volume presents the first comprehensive, critical analysis of American Catholic thought on war and peace. George Weigel begins with a survey of American Catholicism's complex heritage of moral reasoning on war, peace, and political community. Offering a major reinterpretation of American Catholic history, he demonstrates how the American bishops' development of a theology of democracy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019505914X
• ISBN13: 9780195059144
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"